The Strategic Computing Initiative (SCI) was a program our military pursued for ten years. It was proposed in 1983 and flourished through the final phase of the Cold War. Its aim was to enable interconnected super comput...

[http://youtu.be/2jvLalY6ubc] (YouTube link)Remember BigDog, the robot that Boston Dynamics developed for the military to use as a mechanical pack animal? Now it can throw cinder blocks! This may have been designed as a...

The military has finally succeeded in meld... ...ybernetic hivemind. After four years of research, DARPA has created
a system that combines came... ...surprisingly fast, too:
According to DARPA , CT2WS display 10 images per second to the human... ...91% — but that will...

Do we want to fight the aliens? No. They have... ...veral proposals now being frantically examined by DARPA . Among them is a missile defense laser system tha... ...utfitted with this under-development project from DARPA that aims to "improve the performance of high ene... ...y to arrive.
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NASA and DARPA are looking for some good ideas on creating plans... ...starship has been tossed around recently, and now DARPA the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, ha... ...as gotten $100,000 from NASA and $ 1 million from DARPA